The thunder roared, the weaklings squeaked, the hawk tuahed.

The word of the declaration of war against the head of the Marketing Development Department of the [Trailblaze profanity] IPC is not yet announced publicly, due to many factors of uncertainty... Yet, Stelle made sure the word reached every Nameless in the Cosmos, and somehow it gave her a headache and 4000 mechanical scribes needed to replace their CPU in the process.

"Interesting... Seems like she is up to something now, hey, Kafka, what do you think?"

Silver Wolf's gum balloon popped as she turned around to ask the pretty, elegant lady that we all call mommy in the game, who smiled upon hearing her question, she doesn't reply yet, but her eyes locked onto the transmission sent by Stelle to other Nameless in the Cosmos shows that she is interested in this matter.

"She just got herself tangled into the Family's upcoming mess, the IPC's impending civil war and the Xianzhou encroaching Fourth Abundance War." - Silver Wolf added as she started typing, and more data starated showing up. "That is not to mention a bunch of other affairs in the Cosmos she also will be involved later on, the Rangers' Retribution, Geniuses' Reforms,... Don't you think she's got a lot on her plates now?"

"Well... What can I say? She is destined for greater things... We can do nothing but to support her in accordance with our scripts. Anyways, Elio has just given us the next script. Recall Blade and Firefly, we will use the old ways this time." - Kafka said as she then turned around and picked her coat up from the couch.

"Heh?" - Silver Wolf glanced back at her companion. "What is our target this time for us to use the old ways?"

"Our target this time... Is the Market."

— — — — —

"Eh? You serious?" - Firefly asked after she took a bite from a slice of the Oak cake roll, hearing what Stelle just told her.

"Mhm, of course, we are going to battle against Oswaldo Schneider." - Stelle was munching on some watermelon slices. "I was just thinking that letting you guys know would be a good idea, in case, you know, we might need allies."

"Heh... I see, well, going up against the IPC isn't exactly easy unless you have some big allies.. But seeing how you are doing now, I think you are not totally at a disadvantage." - Firefly said, then she took another bite of the cake before her phone started buzzing with messages coming in.

She takes a look at them and then sighed, mostly it's because she barely got the time to sit around with Stelle and have some sweets with her, but there's nothing much she can do, after all, it's her choice and she knows how much the Stellaron Hunters need her and she just can't leave them.

"Alright, I have to go now." - Firefly finished the slice.

"Ara, you're going already? You have just come here not so long ago." - Himeko asked.

"My apologies, miss Himeko, but we have another mission incoming." - Firefly replies as she looks at Stelle again. "I'm going, see you next time, Stelle." - She waved her hand as she bid farewell to her friend.

"Take care, Firefly." - Stelle bid farewell in return as well, as she looked at the Stellaron Hunter flew away from the Express.

"Well, what do you plan to do now, passenger Stelle? How about helping me cleaning-"

Stelle quickly wraps up a slice of cake in a hurry and runs away before Pom Pom can finish their sentence, leaving the train conductor quite annoyed but can't do anything much because this happens on a daily basis.

And yes, she is going to meet Akivili again, by secretly going through the portal hidden behind an obscured trash can, making sure no one sees her, as she had promised with Akivili... This time she brought the Aeon some snacks.

"Yo time for-"

She was stunned, because she saw a familiar figure from behind... Standing face to face against the Aeon of Trailblaze, having her hand on the hilt of her long blade... There she is, Acheron, the Emanator of Nihility.

"What the [Trailblaze profanity]-"

...

One day, after dinner,... ahh brainrot session later

"... Sorry. I got lost again." - Acheron calmly states her excuse now as the three all calmed and sat down on the couch. "I was trying to get to the star port."

"Ahaha... I see, I will help you later so don't worry..." - Stelle said, noticing how Acheron is looking at Akivili now, she looked slightly confused, same for Akivili, even though she can't see THEM directly, but judging by how tense up the atmosphere is, she probably should introduce them to each other. "By the way, Acheron, this is Akivili, the Aeon of Trailblaze."

Acheron's eyes widened slightly when she heard of the title Aeon, she wasn't expecting that at all, and she kinda sat there awkwardly and kinda lowered her head a bit, as paying respect to the Aeon.

"No need, dear child. Formalities are never needed when you are in the presence of Trailblaze." - Akivili shifts and reaches a hand out to Acheron, as if dismissing her from the gesture.

"And Akivili, this is Acheron, or..." - Stelle was wondering if she could tell the Aeon her real name or not, but decided not to. "This is Acheron, Emanator of Nihility."

Stelle and Acheron heard something broke, they weren't sure of what exactly, but Akivili remained frozen for a few moments after Stelle finished introducing Acheron to THEM.

"...?"

"Uhh..."

"...Excuse me, my child... but... What did you just say? Emanator of what?"

"Nihili-" - Stelle was about to repeat it again and she stopped, because she remembered that Nihility does not and cannot have any Pathstrider, let alone an Emanator, so in essence, Acheron is like an anomaly in reality. "oh"

Akivili immediately stood up and walked over to the windows, THEY locked the windows tightly and pulled the curtains over, even going as far as to locking the door and installing an additional lock before walking back to the couch and sat down. THEY are even more tensed up than a few moments earlier.

"Uhhh alright this might come as a surprise to you two but... It's not possible." - Akivili said calmly.

"Yeah we know." - Stelle said and then she glanced over at Acheron, who nodded at her words.

"Yeah. And what happens if something that is impossible suddenly becomes possible?"

"...Uhh..."

"Countless. Other. Impossible. Things. Follows."

"Oh... uhhh..."

"And guess who doesn't like it the most?"

"The Equilibrium." - Acheron said, clearly she was being too familiar with the topic.

"Exactly, dear child. HooH dislikes those unbalancing changes, THEY will not stop the moment something like this is detected, THEY will keep going until the very source of the problem is eliminated." - Akivili said. "Your existence itself will alert THEM."

"I know... And I don't intend to let them get to me just yet. I still need to do something..." - Acheron said as she held dearly onto her blade all of a sudden.

"..."

"Well... It will be a restless pursuit, would that be too much of a burden to you, child?" - Akivili asked.

"Not at all." - Acheron replied, a tone of sadness hinted in her voice, masked with the nihilistic aura she would radiate.

Stelle felt that this conversation might be going too negatively in emotion so she decided to boost the mood up by asking them to engage in some storytelling.

"Well, things like this always remind me of myself in hungry times, so that's why..." - Stelle unwrapped the sweets from earlier and presented them to the two, the atmosphere seemed less tense after that.

Meanwhile, at the place of the Equilibrium, HooH was observing the Cosmos at large.

"..."

THEY are usually silent, THEY do not speak unless a new threat to the balance has been detected. Should there be an error in the logic of reality, THEY would be alerted immediately, but it has been a long time since the last anomaly appeared... which THEY also failed to detain and fix immediately, although the Arbitrators worked tirelessly from day to day, the duty remained unfulfilled.

That is, until enlightenment came, or so HooH thought, but it was THEM, Aha, the Aeon of Elation!!!

"Wohohohohohohohoo... Hello there old friend! Still hanging up well?" - Aha asked, clearly seemed happy and amused - as always, after all, THEY are the embodiment of Elation.

"..."

The Equilibrium gives no response.

"Ohohoh, playing cold here aren't we? I suppose you can-"

"The Aeonic-grade toilet project remained unconstructed, Qlipoth the Preservation didn't even bother to read the blueprint you provided." - HooH finally responds.

"Aha- wait that's not actually what I came here for."

"And no, the Trailblaze has not disappeared from the Cosmos as a Path yet."

"That's not actually what I came for either, this time it's a bit different~" - Aha said.

"... What is it then."

"I was wondering if you are... well... by any chance, blessed a grey haired mortal lately?"

"..."

"No huh? I went to Nous, asked Lan and Yaoshi, even went to IX-"

Alarms started beeping as Aha mentioned the name of Nihility, but then their laughter overwhelmed the sound of the beeping alarms.

"Ahahahahaha what are you doing? There's no need to get so worked up over them! You need to learn how to control your emotions! You are exactly begin to act like Idrila since the *******!!!"

"I did bless anyone. Now get lost, Elation." - HooH said as THEY turned away.

"Oh very well then, guess it's time to go and ask Mythus."

— — —

"That actually reminded me. Aha once proposed to Qlipoth a way to stall Oroboros more effectively than the Cosmic Wall." - Akivili said as THEY munch on the cake.

The conversion seem to be friendlier than before now, Acheron even offered the two some peaches she has on her, further stabilizing the atmosphere.

"You see, Oroboros the Aeon of Voracity does really have a bottomless appetite, THEY would not stop devouring until there is nothing left and Qlipoth is the single Aeon who takes extreme action against it by using THEIR divinity to build a great wall, preventing the Voracity from consuming all." - Akivili said.

"So what was Aha's propose?"

"Well..."

Story time~

It is when Qlipoth started building the wall for not so long, even before Big John came to be, and as you expected, the Wall Qlipoth was building was nowhere near its size today, Aha found it amusing at the thought that someday, there would be a great barrier isolating reality itself from the Voracity, the thought of that tickled their funny bone but it wasn't enough, so Aha went up to Qlipoth and proposed a plan...

Aha : Hey! Howdy, old man!

Qlipoth doesn't even bother to give attention to the Elation's sudden appearance.

Aha : You see, aside from building a really, really big wall, I have a plan that you might be interested in! Heck, if this plays well, maybe Voracity will be gone for good!

Qlipoth still doesn't care, yet the Elation did not back down from it, after all, THEY find the joy in everything.

Aha : Let's just transport all the laxatives in the Cosmos onto this one planet and lure Oroboros over! If she eats it, I can guarantee that she will desperately need a place to release the hell!!! No seriously though, it will definitely be a real hell for all of us but anyways, here's what you need to do! Just build a giant toilet for Aeons near IX! And when Oroboros is using it, push her into the Nihility! Aha! I'm such a genius! I should go and enlist in the Genius Society!

Qlipoth almost smacked Aha that day.